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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law Grad’s Ballooning Student Debt Will Exceed $1.5M by the Time He Retires. A Touro law graduate who financed his education with a $69,000 loan in 1996 says he’ll owe more than $1.5 million by the time he retires in 23 years. John Koch, now 46, was unable to pass the [...]read more

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student Loan Debt Hits Record Levels. “The amount of student loans taken out last year crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time and total loans outstanding will exceed $1 trillion for the firs...

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: To Pay Off Loans, Grads Put Off Marriage, Children. Between the ages of 18 and 22, Jodi Romine took out $74,000 in student loans to help finance her business-management degree at Kent State University...

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Sometimes grad school flunks the cost-benefit test. You know the $1 trillion in student loan borrowing that is of concern to many of us? About 40 percent comes from loans to finance graduate and profe...

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ohio State Law Grad Has $328,000 Of Student Loan Debt. Actually, I had a student graduate with more debt than that, though the vast majority of it had been run up in a very expensive undergraduate and...